A memorial from William Tisdale, Esq. judge of the court of admiralty in and for the port of Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina, and John Cooke, Esq. proctor and advocate in the said court, in behalf of John Cochran, Cornelius Anible, Isaac M’Key, and Nathaniel Moore,¹ who brought into the said port, and libelled in the said court of admiralty, a sloop called the Tryal, which was condemned in the said court, and two-thirds of the net proceeds adjudged to the use of the United States, and the other third to the use of the said libellants, was read, praying, for sundry special reasons therein set forth, that the two-thirds adjudged to the use of the United States, may be given up to the use of the said libellants:

Resolved, That the prayer of the said memorial be granted.

. . . The Marine Committee report, that they have conversed with Captain Landais, an experienced sea officer, and skilled in the construction of ships of war, and that he has demonstrated to their satisfaction, that the seventy-four gun ship now on the stocks at Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, may be more profitably for the public, constructed a two-decker, carrying twenty eight 24 pounders upon her lower battery, and twenty eight 18 pounders on the upper deck; in the whole 56 guns: Whereupon,

Resolved, That the said ship heretofore intended for one of 74 guns, be constructed to carry 56 guns only, upon two batteries, that is to say, twenty eight 24 pounders upon the lower deck, and twenty eight 18 pounders upon the upper deck.²

Resolved, That the new continental frigate built at Salisbury, in the State of Massachusetts bay, and lately launched, be called, “The Alliance.”³